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'help alleviate this burden'

How JD Vance will put an end to 'racist' government DEI programs

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Joe Biden likely won’t sign it, but regardless, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has introduced legislation to dismantle all federal DEI programs.

“If you want to root out the Deep State and the bureaucracy, you need political appointees who are aligned with the agenda. And what this legislation does — I’m not an idiot, Joe Biden’s not going to sign it — but Donald Trump would,” Vance tells Glenn Beck, adding, “What it would do is really destroy the diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracy that exists in our country.”

“People say, ‘Well, who doesn’t like diversity right? Doesn’t diversity just mean you have a nice Mexican restaurant down the street?’” Vance continues. “The way that our federal government has interpreted this is to explicitly allow racist decision-making, primarily targeting white and Asian Americans.”

One example Vance uses is of a farm program that explicitly excluded white Americans from the provision of farm assistance for American farmers.

“That’s ridiculous,” Vances tells Glenn. “You can’t discriminate, whether black or white, against people on the basis of skin color, this would proactively root this stuff out of our government, and it’s a very important first step to getting basic merit back in our federal system.”

“I don’t think that even black farmers would have wanted that,” Glenn says, agreeing. “Farmers rely on each other, and they need to help each other because you know if Bill’s crop is down this year, it might be my crop down next year. So, we’re all in this together.”

Vance believes this has a lot less to do with actually helping black people and a lot more to do with hurting white people.

“One of my theories, Glenn, is that a lot of what is broken about America is high-education whites, who really hate lower-education whites. And I think you see that as a main driver of a lot of very stupid, evil public policy in this country, so we’ve got to root it out,” Vance explains.





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The 5 MOST Immoral Taxes You are FORCED to Pay

The 5 MOST Immoral Taxes You are FORCED to Pay

Actor Terrence Howard allegedly said it's 'immoral' to tax 'descendants of slaves.' Now he owes nearly $1 million to IRS.

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After actor Terrence Howard allegedly threatened a Justice Department lawyer and said it's “immoral for the United States government to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves," a federal judge ordered him to pay nearly $1 million in back taxes, interest, and penalties, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

What's the background?

The Internal Revenue Service tried for more than a year to collect $578,000 in income taxes the agency said Howard — star of the hit TV show "Empire" — failed to pay between 2010 and 2019, the paper said.

After the Justice Department sued the 54-year-old actor in 2022, his sole response was a voicemail he allegedly left for the case's lead tax attorney in November, the paper said.

“Four hundred years of forced labor and never receiving any compensation for it,” Howard said in the message, the paper reported, citing a transcript of it. “Now, you have the gall to try and prosecute and charge taxes to the descendants of a broken people that you are responsible for causing the breakage.”

According to the paper, he added in a subsequent message, “In truth, the entire United States should, by default, become the property of the descendants of slaves. But since you do not have the ability [or] the courage to do it, let’s try this in court. … We’re gonna bring you down."

More from the Inquirer:

Despite that vow, Howard never formally responded to the lawsuit. And after a court hearing last week in Philadelphia, U.S. District Judge John F. Murphy granted the government’s request to enter a $903,115 default judgment against the actor, a ruling that was first reported by the legal news service Law360.

Efforts to reach Howard at a number he left on that voicemail and through a lawyer who at one point told Justice Department lawyers that he might represent the actor in the case were unsuccessful Wednesday.

Anything else?

Howard said in a 2019 red carpet interview that he was ready to spread truth, which included "the science that Pythagoras was searching for" and building the Milky Way "without gravity."

He noted, "I was able to open up the flower of life and find the real wave conjugations that we've been looking for for 10,000 years. Why would I continue walking on water for tips when I've got an entire generation to teach a whole new world?"

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Democrats weaponizing the IRS against political opponents is nothing new



Weaponized bureaucrats are nothing new in politics. There is a history of Democrats using the IRS for political gain. Franklin Roosevelt used the IRS against Andrew Mellon, who'd been the treasury secretary under Coolidge and was a public servant. There was nothing on Mellon. Roosevelt tried for 10 years to put Mellon in jail, and even ordered his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau to go after Mellon. At the end of the trial, the federal judge said, "you don't have anything [on] him." John Kennedy used the IRS to go after conservative groups. Lyndon B. Johnson used the IRS to go after his political opponents, and he used the FBI to tap the phones of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King. LBJ sent the FBI into the democratic convention in Atlantic City to monitor King and other civil rights leaders.

According to the Washington Post, the richest 1% are hiding more than 20% of their income from the IRS. "If they are hiding it," Mark Levin asked, "then how does the IRS know about it?" Why doesn't it tax the hidden funds? Watch the clip for more from "LevinTV" on BlazeTV.


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Beware the Attack of Dem Bureaucrats

Beware the Attack of Dem Bureaucrats

Social security recipients may see big COLA boost in 2023



American seniors and others who receive monthly social security checks will likely see a big cost of living raise in 2023.

According to experts, social security benefits are likely to increase anywhere from 9.3% to 10.1% next year. Should they increase by 9.6%, the average social security recipient, who currently collects $1,656 every month, will receive an additional $158.98 on each check, resulting in about $1,900 over the course of the entire year.

A 9.6% increase would also mark the largest increase since 1981, when it went up 11.2%, and would be the fourth-highest increase in nearly 50 years.

Every October, the Social Security Administration announces the COLA raise that has been assessed for the forthcoming year. It determines this raise by examining inflation data from July, August, and September of the current year. In 2022, social security benefits went up 5.9%, a staggering jump that more than doubled nearly every yearly increase since 1982.

Still, that amount has not been enough to keep pace with rising inflation. In June, inflation rose to 9.1%, and increases in food and gas prices have left many social security dependents strapped for cash.

Soaring costs associated with Medicare Part B have also meant added expenses for many seniors. An analysis conducted by Senior Citizens League estimates that, despite the 5.9% increase in 2022, social security checks are still short $58 each month, based on actual cost of living. SCL also stated that 37% of its survey respondents claimed to receive some kind additional income assistance in 2021, a 21% increase from the years prior to COVID.

"This suggests that the pandemic and inflation have caused significantly higher numbers of adults living on fixed incomes to turn to these programs to supplement their Social Security and Medicare benefits as prices have continued to climb," said Mary Johnson of SCL.

Though economists caution that we do not yet have the data points for August and September, many are anxiously anticipating an increase that will help offset their added expenses.

Johnson said she expects the Social Security Administration to announce the 2023 COLA increase on October 13.